Morning journal and courier., 1887-02-08
LOCAL N k w 8.
Brief Mention,

Brief Mention
The best at Dorman's.
Buy your valentines at Northrop's.
Rev. William Dearborn has decided to
remain in his Hartford passionate.
Prof. Huntington of Trinity college, who
has been i'll, left for Florida yesterday to
recuperate.
The annual meeting of the Connecticut
Training School for Nurses takes place to-
morrow afternoon.
College street church Thursday evening,
"The Crest of the. Continent and Yellowstone
Park" by L. P. Deming.
Edward A. Flagg, long prominent in the
grain business in Hartford and West Hart
ford, died at home in the latter place yester-
day of pneumonia.
Many friends will sympathize with Mr..
and Mrs. Stephen Ahern in their loss yester-
day of their infant son, who died of pneumo-
mia after q very brief illness.
Olive Branch council No. z Original, D. of
L., held a meeting in their hall in the
COURIER building last evening and initiated
five members. There are eight applications
now pending.
Mark Twsin will respond to one of the
toasts at the Yale banquet at Hartford to-
night. Prof. Sumner, of Yale, has written
that it will be impossible for him to attend
the banquet.
Prof. Hadley, of Yale, and Charles P.
Clark, ex-president of the New York and
New England railroad, are being urged to
represent New England on the Interstate
commission.
The sixty sixth anniversary of the estab-
lishment of Odd Fellowship will occur on
the 26th of April, and will probably be cele-
brated in appropriate form by the lodges of
the order in this city.
The New Haven District Ministerial asso-
ciation's annual meeting will be held to-day
and tomorrow at the First Methodist church,
opening at a. m. The subject of probation
after death will come up in Rev. Mr.. Van
Alstyne's paper.
The room of the employment bureau Of
the United Workers, No. 5 State House, is
open every Monday afternoon and Tuesday
morning. All persons are solicited to pur-
chase garments and thereby aid in furnishing
plain sewing to needy women.
Bridgeport lodge of Elks had charge of the
buried in Bridgeport Sunday. The Elks'
quartette sang appropriate music, and the
lodge contributed broken Tyre of rare flow
ers as a token of remembrance.
All the perishable freight at the Harlem
river freight house of tbs Consolidated road
has been taken care of and a gang of 100
Italians, who have been used in ballasting
the road, will be sent to New York in case
help enough could not be secured in New
York yesterday.
James Smith, secretary of the j. A. Smith
Manufacturing Co. of West6eld, died early
Sunday morning after long illness, which
started with hemorrhages. Deceased was AZ
years of age and was the Oldest of five sons
of the late James o. Smith, who was well
known in Meriden.
Napoleon Gerard, brother of Hector Ger
ard who dropped dead on Congress avenue
Sunday night arrived here last night from
Nashua, New Hampshire. It was finally
decided to take the body to Bridgeport for
interment early this morning. The funeral
services will be held Wednesday morning in
that city.
A delegation of a dozen or more members
of Columbia council, Knights of Columbus,
of this city, will attend the ball of Sheridan
council in Waterbury next Friday night. The
two councils had trial of skill at the
national game last summer, and since then
have been on close terms of intimacy. The
delegation will be headed by Grand Knight